100+ Famous Books and Authors For Competitive Exams | Books released in 2020-2021 and earlier
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List of 100+ Famous Books and Authors For Competitive Exams and MCQs
Books by Prominent Leaders
| BOOKS | AUTHORS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | My Experiments with Truth | Mahatma Gandhi |
| 2. | Hind Swaraj | |
| 3. | Key to Health | |
| 4. | Discovery of India | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 5. | Glimpses of World History | |
| 6. | The Indian Struggle 1920-1942 | Jawaharlal Nehru |
| 7. | An Indian Pilgrim | |
| 8. | India Divided | Dr. Rajendra Prasad |
| 9. | Golden Threshold | Sarojini Naidu |
| 10. | The Broken Wing, Songs of Life, Death & The Spring | |
| 11. | The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India | |
| 12. | The Feather of the Dawn | |
| 13. | India Wins Freedom | Maulana Abul Kalam Azad |
| 14. | Ghubar-e-khatir | |
| 15. | Unhappy India | Lala Lajpat Rai |
| 16. | My Truth | Indira Gandhi |
| 17. | Poverty and Un-British Rule in India | Dadabhai Naoroji |
| 18. | Geeta Rahashya | Bal Gangadhar Tilak |
| 19. | The Arctic Home in the Vedas | |
| 20. | The Indian War of Independence of 1857 | VD Savarkar |
| 21. | The Insider | PV Narasimha Rao |
| 22. | My Country My Life | LK Advani |
| 23. | Indian Philosophy | Dr. S. Radhakrishnan |
| 24. | Hindu View of Life | |
| 25. | Wings of Fire | APJ Abdul Kalam |
| 26. | Ignited Minds | |
| 27. | You Are Unique | |
| 28. | India 2020 | |
| 29. | Indomitable Spirit | |
| 30. | Turning Points - A Journey through Challenges | |
| 31. | My Journey - Transforming Dreams into Actions | |
| 32. | Governance for Growth in India | |
| 33. | Beyond Survival: Emerging Dimensions of Indian Economy | Shri Pranab Mukherjee |
| 34. | Saga of Struggle and Sacrifice | |
| 35. | Challenges before the Nation | |
| 36. | The Dramatic Decade: The Days of Indira Gandhi | |
| 37. | Changing India | Dr. Manmohan Singh |
| 38. | Exam Warriors | Narendra Modi |
| 39. | My Unforgettable Memories | Mamata Banerjee |
| 40. | My Own Boswell | M Hidvatullah |
| 41. | Connecting, Communicating. Changing | Rajnath Singh |
| 42. | Karmayoddha Granth | Amit Shah |
| 43. | The Swachh Bharat Kranti | Gajendra Singh Shekhawat & Smriti Irani |
| 44. | Das Kapital | Karl Marx |
| 45. | Jobs for Our Millions | VV Giri |
| 46. | Without Fear or Favour | Neelam Sanjeeva Reddy |
| 47. | My Presidential Years | R Venkataraman |
| 48. | Back to Work | Bill Clinton |
| 49. | Hard Choices | Hillary Clinton |
| 50. | Long Walk to Freedom | Nelson Mandela |
| 51. | Mein Kampf | Adolf Hitler |
| 52. | The Audacity of Hope | Barrack Obama |
| 53. | Dreams From My Father | |
Books by Sportspersons
| BOOKS | AUTHORS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Goal! | Dhyan Chand |
| 2. | The Race of my Life | Milkha Singh |
| 3. | At Close of Play | Ricky Ponting |
| 4. | Unbreakable | M.C. Mary Kom |
| 5. | Playing it my way | Sachin Tendulkar & Boria Majumdar |
| 6. | A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold | Abhinav Bindra |
| 7. | Ace Against Odds | Sania Mirza |
| 8. | Playing to Win | Saina Nehwal |
| 9. | Born Again on the Mountain | Arunima Sinha |
| 10. | Wide Angle | Anil Kumble |
| 11. | Straight from the Heart; Cricket, My Style | Kapil Dev |
| 12. | Sunny Days; Idols; Runs & Ruins | Sunil Gavaskar |
| 13. | The Test of My Life | Yuvraj Singh |
| 14. | All Round View | Imran Khan |
| 15. | One Century is Not Enough | Saurav Ganguly |
| 16. | Mind Master | Vishwanathan Anand |
| 17. | Six Machine: I don't like cricket.. I love it | Chris Gayle |
| 18. | Serve to Win | Novak Djokovic |
| 19 | Faster than Lightning: My Story | Usain Bolt |
| 20. | No Limits: The Will to Succeed | Michael Phelps |
| 21. | Rafa: My Story | Rafael Nadal |
| 22. | Undisputed Truth: My Autobiography | Mike Tyson |
| 23. | Unguarded | Mithali Raj |
| 24. | No Spin: My Autobiography | Shane Warne |
Important Books Released in 2020-2021
| BOOKS | AUTHORS | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Whereabouts | Jhumpa Lahiri |
| 2. | Unfinished | Priyanka Chopra Jonas |
| 3. | The Lost Soul | Olga Tokarczuk |
| 4. | #METOO | Karan Puri |
| 5. | Right Under Our Nose | R. Giridharan |
| 6. | India's 71-Year Test: The Journey to Triumph in Australia | R. Kaushik |
| 7. | The Commonwealth of Cricket | Ramachandra Guha |
| 8. | A Song of India | Ruskin Bond |
| 9. | I am No Messiah | Meena lyer & Sonu Sood |
| 10. | Your Best Day is Today! | Anupam Kher |
| 11. | The Battle of Belonging | Shashi Tharoor |
| 12. | Bapu- the Unforgettable | Manish Sisodia |
| 13. | Voices of Dissent | Romila Thapar |
| 14. | Azadi: Freedom. Fascism. Fiction | Arundhati Roy |
| 15. | The Ickabog | JK Rowling |
| 16. | Kitchens of Gratitude | Chef Vikas Khanna |
| 17. | My Life in Design | Gauri Khan |
| 18. | Nothing to lose | Manbeena Sandhu |
| 19 | Let Us Dream | Pope Francis |
| 20. | Pitching is Straight | Gurcharan Singh and MS Unnikrishnan |
| 21. | One Arranged Murder | Chetan Bhagat |
| 22. | Amazing Ayodhya | Neena Rai |
| 23. | Ayodhya | Madhav Bhandari |
| 24. | Overdraft: Saving the Indian Saver | Urjit Patel |
| 25. | Suparipalana | Dr Shailendra Joshi |
| 26. | RAW: A History of India's Covert Operations | Yatish Yadav |
| 27. | The Little Book of Encouragement | Dalai Lama |
| 28. | Agriculture Acts 2020 | Justice A K Rajan |
| 29. | Vahana Masterclass | Alfredo Covelli |
| 30. | Names of the Women | Jeet Thayil |
| 31. | My Experiments with Silence | Samir Soni |
| 32. | Advantage India: The Story of Indian Tennis | Anindya Dutta |
| 33. | Missing in Action: The Prisoners Who Never Came Back | Chander Suta Dogra |
| 34. | Full Spectrum. India's Wars, 1972-2020 | Arjun Subramaniam (Retd. Air Vice Marshal) |
| 35. | Cricket Drona | Jatin Paranjpe & Anand Vasu |
| 36. | The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World | Subrahmanyam Jaishankar |
| 37. | My Encounters in Parliament | Bhalchandra Mungekar |
| 38. | Lockdown Liaisons | Shobhaa De |
| 39. | The Endgame | Hussain Zaidi |
| 40. | National Security Challenges: Young Scholars Perspective | Ramandeep Singh Sandhu & Manjari Singh (editors) |
Related Questions Answers
Which of the following books is not authored by Sarojini Naidu?
a. The Feather of the Dawn
b. A Song of India
c. Golden Threshold
d. The Sceptred Flute: Songs of India
Who is the author of the book 'Let Us Dream'?
a. Dalai Lama
b. Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam
c. Pope Francis
d. Nelson Mandela
Who is the author of the book 'Whereabouts'?
a. Manbeena Sandhu
b. Arundhati Roy
c. Ruskin Bond
d. Jhampa Lahiri
Who has written a book called India to the Rescue?
Ans- Sushant Singh & Shruti Rao
Other important books:
- Life in the Clock Tower Valley - Shakoor Rather
- The bench - Meghan Markle, Maiden novel of the Duchess of Sussex.
The book titled Nathuram Godse: The True Story of Gandhi's Assassin was written by...?
Ans- Dhaval Kulkarni.
This book will be published by Pan Macmillan India in 2022.
A book titled The Struggle Within A Memoir of the Emergency authored by...?
Ans- Ashok Chakravarti
Who has written the book Urdu poets and writers: gems of Deccan'?
Ans- JS Iftekhar (senior journalist)
- Vice President M. Venkaih Naidu received a book.
A new book titled The Art of Conjuring Alternate Realities: How Information Warfare Shapes Your World, authored by...?
Ans- Shivam Shankar Singh & Anand Venkatanarayanan
HOW DO POLITICIANS IN TODAY'S world attain power? How do nations become powerful? Why do human beings follow others unquestioningly, even if it is to their own detriment?
A book titled Kashmiri Century: Portrait of a Society in Flux authored by...?
Ans- Khem Lata Wakhlu
A book title An Ordinary Life: Portrait of an Indian Generation written by?
Ans- Ashok Lavasa
(Former election commissioner)
Who has written the book Growing Up Biden?
Ans- Valerie Biden Owen
(Joe Biden's sister)
Who has unveiled the book Bank With A Soul: Equitas?
Ans- Duvvuri Subbarao
(Former RBI Governor)
- Authored by retired IAS officer Dr. C K Gariyali.
Who writes a book titled The India Story?
Ans- Vimal Jalan (Former RBI Governor)
The book focuses on India's economic history and aims to provide lessons for the future of India's political economy.
Who is the author of the book India versus China: why they are not friends?
Ans- Kanti Bajpai
A new book titled The Light of Asia by...?
Ans- Jairam Ramesh
Other important books :
- Right Under Your Nose - R. Giridharan
- The Commonwealth of Cricket - Ramachandra Guha.
- Because India Comes first - Ram Madhav.
Miscellaneous Books and Authors
Authors |
Books |
|---|---|
| Amartya Sen |
Home in the World |
| Sonia Sanwalka |
"The Race of My Life" is the autobiography of Milkha Singh |
| Nitin Rakesh, Jerry Wind |
Transformation in Times of Crisis |
| David Diop |
At Night All Blood Is Black |
| Ravi Shastri, Ayaz Memon |
"Stargazing: The Players in My Life" |
| Salman Rushdie |
Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020 |
| R J Palacio |
Pony |
| Amitav Ghosh |
The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis |
| Bishnupada Sethi |
Beyond Here and Other Poems |
| Sam Pitroda |
Redesigning The World: A Global Call to Action |
| Michael Holding |
Why We Kneel How We Rise |
| Manoj Kewalramani |
Smokeless War: China's Quest for Geopolitical Dominance |
| Dipayan Ghosh |
Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design |
| Amitav Ghosh |
The Living Mountain: A Fable for Our Times |
| Yuvraj Singh |
The Test of My Life from cricket to cancer and back |
| Viswanathan Anand and Susan Ninan |
Mind-Master |
| Sourav Ganguly |
A Century Is Not Enough |
| Shane Warne |
No Spin: My Autobiography |
| VVS Laxman, R Kaushik |
281 and Beyond |
| Moeen Ali |
Moeen |
| Priyanka Chopra |
“Unfinished: A Memoir” |
| Kajal Suri |
Habba Khatoon |
| Sanjib Kumar Borkakoti |
Essays on Srimanta Sankarade |
| Nitin Anant Gokhale |
Manohar Parrikar: Brilliant Mind, Simple Life |
| Maggie O'Farrell |
Hamnet |
| Kalki Koechlin |
Elephant In The Womb |
| Tahera Qutbuddin |
Arabic Oration – Art and Function |
| Boria Majumdar, Gautam Bhattacharya |
1971: The Beginning of India's Cricketing Greatness |
| K Raghothaman |
Assassination of Mahatma – Indira – Rajiv Gandhis |
| K Raghothaman |
Third Degree Crime Investigation Management: Crime and the Criminal |
| Preet Mohan Singh Malik |
Sikkim: A History of Intrigue and Alliance |
| Avtar Singh Bhasin |
Nehru, Tibet and China |
| Shivshankar Menon |
India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present |
| Aditya Gupta |
7 Lessons from Everest – Expedition Learnings from Life and Business |
| Vikram Sampath |
Savarkar: A contested Legacy (1924-1966) |
| Jhumpa Lahiri |
Whereabouts |
| Shakoor Rather |
Life in the Clock Tower Valley |
| Valeria Luiselli |
Lost Children Archive |
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